Tears of the gods.

In the city of Mirny (Republic of Sakha-Yakutia, Russia) there is one of the world's largest diamond quarries - the "Mir" kimberlite pipe. Helicopters do not fly over the diamond mine: a giant funnel 525 meters deep and more than 1 km in diameter, initiating updrafts, sucks in aircraft.

In 1957, near the diamond-bearing vein, the working settlement of Mirny grew up, which in 1959 received the status of a city. To get here, the first columns of trucks overcame 2,800 kilometers of off-road.

The deposit was first developed by an open method, and then, as the quarry deepened, the development gradually switched to an underground method of diamond mining. The quarry has a depth of 535 m and a diameter of 1.2 km. Mining of diamondiferous kimberlite ore by open pit was stopped in June 2001.

The original sound is a fragment of the "Earthly City" techno-opera "The Little Mermaid" by Viktor Argonov (Vladivostok, Russia).

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